ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,830, issued on May 13, was assigned to DANA ITALIA S.R.L. (Arco, Italy).
"Drive axle system and method for determining pinion gear torque" was invented by Claudio Maffei (Arco, Italy), Efrem Rusconi (Arco, Italy) and Andrea Bolza (Arco, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a drive axle. The drive axle system, in one example, includes a displacement sensor coupled to a pinion input flange and configured to generate axial displacement data corresponding to the pinion input flange, where the pinion input flange is directly coupled to an angled pinion gear. The drive axle system further includes a controller confi...